Here are my basic 'leftover' ingredients for last night's dinner: green onion, two roma tomatoes, cooked zuchinni and crookneck squash, and grilled corn on the cob. B doesn't like meatless meals, so I'm going to use some of the leftover pork loin to add to his plate :)
I grabbed my spices froom the cupboard... granulated garlic, dried parsley, red pepper flakes, black pepper, dried rosemary, and a bay leaf. I added a 'special ingredient'... one filet of anchovy! (Oh please... have you ever even
tasted anchovies?) The anchovy will 'melt' in the oil and will add a dimension of flavor to the sauce that will be delicious, but undetectable! Trust me on this!
Ok... time to get the pasta cooking. I add a little oil to the water... the pasta won't stick
and the pot won't boil over! I love different pasta and shapes, but for this dish I'm using regular spaghetti.
I put the red pepper flakes, chopped onion, bay leaf, and anchovy filet in a pan with some olive oil. These ingredients simmered away while I rough-chopped the veggies and cut the corn from the cob.
Add a can of tomato sauce to the veggies and let them simmer. The sauce should be thick enough, but if not, add a couple tablespoons of tomato paste and that will thicken the sauce!
Put the pasta on a plate, top it with the veggie sauce. Now grate some fresh parmesan cheese on top of that!
Fix some garlic bread and a salad, pour a nice glass of wine and enjoy!
I added a pint of heavy cream and let it reduce until it was thick. In the meantime I cooked some pasta. 
When the cream mixture was thick, I added some freshly grated parmesan. Mmmm!
In went the shrimp - for three or four minutes - you don't want to overcook them! 
Here it is Shrimp and Pasta. (We'll have shrimp cocktail another night).
